Sonus Faber Amati Tradition or Serafino G2

For most of the time we used couch cushions, pillows, and heavy blankets to simulate room treatments. It was pretty effective and free. Then as time went on he replaced them with ASC bass traps... found some used ones and panels. 

This will not look good. But just try it. Pile up couch cushions directly behind the speakers and add heavy blankets on the floor in front of the speakers. If you can also have some pillows at side wall reflections (just at ear level). If you can cover all the windows behind with heavy something... should make a big difference. 

Make sure your wife doesn’t see it. Put it away before she gets home... just the sight will drive most women crazy. 

But this kind of stuff should give you a little taste of what treatment can do. Good looking ones can be had later. 

Nice. Beautiful aren’t they? Not only do they sound great... they are simply gorgeous.

I have a friend that set up a system in a room very much like yours. We worked on room treatments and positioning for about a year (obviously very part time). The sound of the initial set up was absolutely (like yours), completely and totally in a different league when done. There is lots of potential there.

Cool, congratulations. Let’s see photos of your system! Easy to add photos under virtual systems. 

If you're going to spend that initially on speaker cables, I recommend DHLabs. 

Also, in a year or two when everything is final and broken in, consider something better. I am using Transparent Ultra Gen 6 on mine. If the tonal balance is perfect and all your components complementary this is a great speaker cable. Speaker cable typically the most important, then the power cord to the amp, and then interconnects and power cords to everything else. But I generally wait a year or so to get into those... you want to know your system inside and out. 

I power my Amati with an Audio Research Ref 160 in triode mode... 70wpc... plenty of power... can blast my large room way louder than I would ever want to listen to them without compression or detriment. These are tube amps... you would not get the same effect with solid state... but they do not require a monstrous amp.